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Mario Mattoli (30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966.
His 1939 film Defendant, Stand Up! was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
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30 November 1950
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
10 January 1940
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
01 December 1935
Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
01 January 1937
The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
22 August 1958
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
07 March 1951
A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter.
23 December 1943
Rather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street corners.
11 August 1966
A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.
21 February 1952
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death.
15 October 1952
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards.
15 December 1940
Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor.
18 October 1939
Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
01 June 1946
The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage.
18 August 1960
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
08 December 1951
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
19 August 1964
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
26 January 1942
A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired.
04 February 1954
Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
23 December 1955
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere.
01 October 1938
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
11 March 1949
Anthology comedy/romance film
05 August 1963
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
10 March 1948
Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
19 October 1961
Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.
17 April 1954
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
13 March 1958
Renato Tuzzi, a primary school teacher, is a shy man, unable to be respected by the turbulent kids.
30 December 1948
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant.
22 December 1960
Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him.
16 September 1953
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man.
16 April 1949
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
30 March 1961
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
30 August 1942
At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends.
12 July 1941
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.
30 June 1962
In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend.
21 September 1945
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
27 September 1950
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
02 September 1950
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
28 April 1957
Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless.
23 November 1951
A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces.
13 September 1951
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
26 November 1947
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count.
30 June 1950
An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type.
03 November 1955
Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
31 October 1950
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer.
01 January 1968
A hilarious anthology of scenes from some of the most famous films starring the great Totò, the prince of Italian comedy.
12 November 1959
Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles.
23 November 1948
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain.
01 April 1953
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
11 March 1959
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name.
21 December 1939
Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
01 December 1943
Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver.